Word: arrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most accounts, Captain Craig Button, 32, was a straight arrow, an accomplished pilot right out of Top Gun who had been flying since he was 15--a young man from New York's Long Island who loved cars, motorcycles and skiing, and who was, as a former college classmate put it, "a follow-the-rules type of guy." He seemed to be the last person anyone would have expected to break formation while flying a routine training mission with two other planes, and an unlikely person simply to vanish into the wild blue yonder with an $8.8 million, bomb-laden...
...though the Defense Fund logo--a map-like street grid with an arrow shooting upward--may imply a single direction for Harvard Square, local business people and residents will doubtless continue to be divided in their support for the group...
...Sears has gained 10 million sq. ft. of selling space, mainly for apparel, in areas reclaimed from storage rooms and furniture departments that migrated to their own stores. To stock the shelves, new merchandising chief Robert Mettler, recruited from Robinson's, brought in popular national brands such as Champion, Arrow and B.U.M. and launched fashionable Sears-designed garments (imagine!) such as the Canyon River Blues and Crossroads casual wear lines. To unsnarl their flow through Sears' supply lines, Martinez hired his own three-star general, William ("Gus") Pagonis, who headed Army logistics during the Gulf...
Hughes is a straight-arrow Republican in a district where that may be a liability: the countercultural Sixth, home to well-heeled nonconformists, has voted Democratic in the past two presidential elections. And with moderate Lynn Woolsey having proved herself a tough legislator, the conservative Hughes will be hard-pressed to find an opening here...
...vigorous opponent of the Clinton Administration, Royce nevertheless celebrated the President's signing of the line-item veto as "another arrow in the quiver" in the fight against wasteful Washington spending. That kind of stand is why Royce is co-chairman of the Congressional Pork Busters Coalition, but he has taken fierce G.O.P. stands for victims' rights and against gun control, illegal immigration and taxation...